Sciron, the warlord Īccording to Plutarch, however, the Megarians claimed that Sciron was not a robber, but identified him with the Megarian warlord named Sciron. In the pediment of the royal Stoa at Athens, there was a group of figures of burnt clay, representing Theseus in the act of throwing Sciron into the sea. As his fourth labour, Theseus slew him in the same way, by pushing him off the cliff or according to some, the hero seized him by the feet and threw him into the sea. When they knelt before him, he would suddenly give them a kick over the cliff into the sea, where the victim's body was devoured by a huge monstrous sea turtle which used to swim under the rocks or rolled down the crags into the sea at a place called Chelone (i.e. He robbed travelers passing the Sceironian Rocks and sitting near the sea he made it his practice to force them to wash his feet at a precipitous place.
Mythology Sciron, the robber Īn Isthmian outlaw, Sciron dwelt at the Sceironian Rocks, a cliff on the Saronic coast of the Isthmus of Corinth on the Megarian territory. A son of Sciron named Alycus, in the army of the Dioscuri was also said to be slain by Theseus when the latter kidnapped the young Helen. Through his daughter Endeis, Sciron was thus the grandfather of the heroes Telamon and Peleus.
Sciron was the father of Endeis by the daughter of Pandion or Chariclo, daughter of Cychreus. Sciron was also called the son of Pylas, king of Megara and thus great-grandson of Lelex. Other sources makes his parents as Canethus and Henioche, a daughter of Pittheus which made him a cousin of Theseus.
Sciron was the son of either Pelops and possibly Hippodameia, or Poseidon and Iphimedeia. He was a famous Corinthian bandit who haunted the frontier between Attica and Megaris.
In Greek mythology, Sciron, also Sceiron, Skeirôn and Scyron, ( Ancient Greek: Σκίρων gen.: Σκίρωνoς) was one of the malefactors killed by Theseus on the way from Troezen to Athens. Sciron beaten by Theseus, Attic red-figure cup, 500–490 BC, Louvre (G 104).
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